AL American plate atlas
Alabama
The Yellowhammer State
Meet the plate, people, places, and stories behind one of the road-trip game’s fifty-one essential finds.
Capital
MontgomeryState bird
Yellowhammer (Northern flicker)Joined the Union
December 14, 181901
A quick trip through time
The Alabama story
Alabama became a center of the cotton economy, the civil rights movement, and American spaceflight. Montgomery, Birmingham, Selma, and Huntsville each tell a different chapter of that story.
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Bumper-sized history
About the plate
Alabama was among the early states to require vehicle registration in the 1910s. Its many specialty plates make the state an especially colorful road-trip catch.